• GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    1213·
    11 days ago

    Lemmy is an echo chamber but I’ll say if for those rare republicans in the back:

    If a prominent democrat has skeletons like this in their closet, they deserve the same scrutiny / disrepute as any republican.

    Party means nothing

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    112·
    11 days ago

    cheating, rape, and violence ARE conservative family values, as long as it’s the men doing any of those things

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 days ago

      Exactly. The alcoholic cheater who sometimes hits his wife is a fun guy to them, a good Christian who’s trying his best. But a trans woman who spends Friday night driving around to pick up food for food not bombs needs to repent and live as Jesus said.

      I’m not pretending Christianity is amazing, I’m an apostate for a reason, but I’ll say this: I’m still a better Christian than a large portion of Christians I know despite the apostacy and the paganism.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        Well, being trans means you believe god made a mistake when creating your body! An opinion held by many Christians wearing corrective eyeware.

        • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          cough cough “Born Again” cough cough

          Isn’t God infallible? So, how did he fuck you up the first time? Gotta take a mulligan? Sounds legit.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 days ago

          That’s fair. One formative experience i had was seeing my childhood church have many parishioners reject our priest. He was pretty radical for a catholic priest having gone on record asking his bishop to perform two separate lesbian weddings (his sister and neice), when I came out of the closet he offered to talk to my ex father about how there’s a commandment about loving family but none about gender, and he routinely called for his parishioners to think and actually strive to be better people. They did not like that. They also really didn’t like when he kept telling the teenagers that he’d rather we think about our beliefs and convert away than to just stay catholic because we were raised that way.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 days ago

              On one hand I’ve seen catholics reject the poor on a lot of topics, really basically all of them. But yeah the American Civil religion seems to be developing a strong cult of Trump. What concerns me is the bishops joining that cult.

              It’s also weird because I’m so used to American fascists being super fucking protestant, and these ones kinda still are, they’re just like the bastard children of Calvinism and Franco era Spanish catholicism.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 days ago

      This isn’t even something people are recently aware of. There’s this old gospel song from the 1920s that Tom Jones does an amazing cover of, called Run On. I keep thinking about these lyrics every time one of these scandals comes up. Of course, the people in the song will supposedly get their comeuppance, but it’s a gospel song, so that’s to be expected:

      Some people go to church just to signify
      Or try to make a date with the neighbor’s wife
      But brother, let me tell you sure as you’re born
      You better leave that woman alone

      One of these days, you mark my words
      You’ll think your brother is gone to work
      You sneak up and knock on his door
      Look out, brother, you’ll knock no more

      (I’m an atheist, but it’s Tom Fucking Jones.)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuYn4Oq4ivs

    • RidderSport@feddit.org
      1·
      11 days ago

      Forgot the name and creator of the theory but it’s basically in/out-group theory. Originally thought up to explain youth criminality in particular.

      On another note, if you are interested run a check-list on the criteria that lead to mass criminality as in genocide and the like for Russia/China and the USA in particular. It’s appalling how close they are in that regard. If we ever get a 3rd world war the war crimes will be uncountable

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    331·
    11 days ago

    I have never taken any moral criticism from the right seriously. They are corrupt immoral hypocritical assholes.

    That said, I will call out any democrat doing unethical shit because I don’t give a shit about party or celebrities. If you are a piece of shit, I don’t care about the letter next to your name.

    And if you have an R next to your name, I give zero shits about any of your opinions you morally bankrupt piece of crap.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      Fucking Don Bacon.

      Air force general and the small handful of times I met him he was a stand up guy. Tipped well, his staff seemed to like him, the guys I work with that worked with him all seemed to like him. Genuinely no complaints about this guy before he ran for office.

      Then he ran for office and like, immediately, started taking money from telecoms to kill net neutrality. And it cost shockingly little to buy his vote. He went on a tour of his district to talk about it, in the middle of the week, during work hours, exclusively in the rural areas of his district.

      My friends, his district is the largest and third largest city in Nebraska, and a few outlying neighborhoods to gerrymander it. You have to really try to avoid the city when you do shit like that.

      He slips a little further every year, he wasn’t sucking the party dick that hard his first term, but he can’t take it out of his mouth at this point.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      19·
      11 days ago

      The Nationalist Christian logic … if I did bad things and God didn’t punish me, then I was allowed by God to do these things and get away with it.

      These are the reasons why I don’t like Nationalist Christians and I don’t believe in God … any God that would allow this stupidity is in a universe I don’t want to take part in. I would rather burn in hell rather than join some fanciful heaven filled with psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists.

      Also I always liked the short form of calling them “Nat-Cs” … Nationalist Christians

    • zib@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 days ago

      Honestly, what even is a political scandal anymore? The goal post has been moved so far, I’m not sure it’s even still in the same zip code.

  • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
    7·
    11 days ago

    I wonder how Elon’s “Kung Fu lessons” with Ghislaine Maxwell panned out.

    I wonder if he “sparred” against 12 year old girls.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 days ago

    Musk actually got two of the three mothers of his children to pretend it was all good and a big misunderstanding on their part.

    His ex-wife still thinks he’s an asshole though.

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
      1·
      10 days ago

      Is it a fact musk cheated on his wives or just hearsay? I just figured they all left after discovering who he truly is inside

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    3·
    11 days ago

    I like these things but would prefer them as a text post to politcal community or such so its searchable and because I tend to block meme communities. Basically im saying this is way to good to be a meme.

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
      3·
      11 days ago

      I tend to block meme communities

      Which is why you are discussing here in the political meme community, right? Well, thanks for letting us know :D

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
        1·
        11 days ago

        I tend to filter my all over time so it happens when it happens and new ones come up all the time with the fediverse. I block sports to its just I block and subscribe based on relative interest.

  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    I feel like the whole ‘Family Values’ thing hasn’t been a talking point from the republicans in a long time. Have any of these 3 actually lectured about family values?